At several points in the movie ... Actually, Belle’s most charming moments take place in the analog world (including perhaps the best love confession scene in anime, ever).

“Belle,” a dazzling new anime from the Japanese director Mamoru ... Technology has its pitfalls, of course, as the movie demonstrates with light dollops of social media satire.

Writer/director Mamoru Hosoda’s new anime film, Belle, conveys this theme and then some throughout the powerful movie which is simply breathtaking to behold from a visual standpoint. This ...

Toussaint Egan (he/him) is a curation editor, out to highlight the best movies, TV, anime, comics ... and Frozen character designer Jin Kim on Belle, and the surprising link between Final Fantasy ...

Tasha Robinson is Polygon’s entertainment editor. She’s covered film, TV, books, and more for 20 years, including at The A.V. Club, The Dissolve, and The Verge. Belle takes place in a near ...

As previously reported, the movie is called Belle and tells the story of a young woman in modern-day Japan as she enters a massive virtual world. Below is the brand new debut 30-second teaser ...

Other behind-the-scenes personnel: The all-star team at Studio Chizu is joined on BELLE by an impressive roster of talent from around the world, many of them new to the world of anime. The ...

Variety connected with McNeill, as well as two of the people behind her casting — Sheh, a veteran of anime ... songs in “Belle” was posted on YouTube as a means of teasing the movie ...